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Recent Examples of free-floating
While major currencies like the U.S. dollar and Japanese yen have a free-floating exchange rate, China tightly regulates the value of the yuan within its domestic market.
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Lee Ying Shan,asriel Chua, CNBC, 11 Apr. 2025
But instead of tackling the matter at hand, almost every scene is weighed down by a free-floating and at times annoyingly intrusive indie-film attitude.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Apr. 2025
Astronomers, who sometimes like to kill fun, call these worlds free-floating planets, which is not nearly as cool a term.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2025
The researchers observed that Knot E could likely be a free-floating evaporating gas globule with a dense cometary-like structure, which requires further investigation.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 24 Mar. 2025
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Of the other methods – including electrocution, lethal gas and hanging – lethal injection had the highest botch rate of more than 7%. ‘An embrace of brutality’ Still, states have remained averse to the firing squad, a position that experts who spoke to CNN believe stems from its overt violence.—
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The neutral material keeps it from looking like an eye sore and can be expanded for more hanging space as needed.—
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Social media posts and years of reviewing cookie-cutter luxury hotels had conditioned me to equate floating breakfasts, monogrammed accessories, butler service, and aromatherapy menus as markers of a dreamy luxury vacation.—
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The boat, a single motorboat, was found floating and half-submerged near the Harbor One Marina.—
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